I am trying to write up a script that will display the total number of hits on my website each day listed in my httpd access logs (which includes the rotated ones), I want to be able to see for a specific date or for all dates.

Hi,

What have you created this far and which specific problem/problems are you running into?

I'm new to this whole scripting business. I have no idea how this information is stored within httpd, so any help right now would be appreciated.

Hi there

I suggest using a very good script out there named Awstats. You might have to change the format used by apache to save the logs (can be either common or combined) since the awstats uses combined mode. As about parsing all logs (archived/rotated ones too) you would need to make some changes so awstats can read them all. For this you would need to modifiy the logrotate config file (usually located in /etc/logrotate.d) and make it look something like:

so basically include the awstats update process into the logrotate preprocessor command. (bolded lines above are the preprocess of logrotate. Of course you would need to modify the PATH to the logs in the above example to match your server setup. I hope it helps

Regards
Andy

Hi,

Take a look at webalizer as well.
Hope this helps.